Or at least soon will be as the temperatures are supposed to reach the low 90's today. The barometric pressure is…
Right.
So there’s a double-session today; 8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
Here is the rest of the week’s schedule, and note Saturday’s practice at Shuart Stadium:
Wednesday, July 30th: 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 31st: 8:45 a.m., 5:45 p.m.
Friday, August 1st: Practice open to the media, but closed to the public.
Saturday, August 2nd: Green & White Practice at 1 pm; located at James M. Shuart Stadium at Hofstra University.
*sidenote: I wrote some 600 words on Tannenbaum’s WFAN interview yesterday, and in response to many of the comments, allow me to do this:
Obfuscate: to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy; to make obscure or unclear.
Put another way, my writing on a daily basis.
And hats off to commenter RC Meany, who dropped “vacuous” into one of his comments yesterday. That, coupled with obfuscate, turned this into a one-day blog version of “The O’Reilly Factor.”
And with that, practice shortly.
Comments (11)
Boland, why is it that camp reports from all the beat reporters are so inconsistent? For example, reading every one of yours and Cimini's, I've mostly heard Clowney and Stuckey's names making these impressive catches and doing great in practice. Then cimini does his position by position analysis in his blog, gets to WR's, and doesn't mention those guys but mentions Wallace Wright has been the most impressive WR. I think you personally mentioned him once in your blog making an impressive catch.
Does this mean what we read from you guys, doesn't really represent who's actually doing well?
dmb, that's a loaded question! Different things stand out to different people, I guess, and there's a subjective quality to what gets reported on a daily basis. What I think is impressive and report on here, it might not be as impessive for someone else. Just like fans have differing opinions, so too do reporters. I do my best to give a snapshot of the day's practice. And if we all wrote the exact same thing, I don't think that would serve anyone very well.
Boland, you didn't answer Bryan's question from yesterday: When the Jets play the Browns, who you rootin' for? No obfuscation or deflections, answer the man's question, Boland.
I understand what you're saying. But I guess what i'm trying to say is, Cimini mentioned all the same things in his camp notes as you have. He's mentioned Stuckey and Clowney, and I don't think he's ever once mentioned Wallace Wright. I guess that's not for you to address.
So I guess my question for you is, are your blogs about camp representative for the most part of the players doing well. So if I read your blog and see a guy being mentioned a lot for good plays, is it pretty fair to assume that player is doing pretty well. Vice versa, if a guy isn't getting mentioned at all, its pretty safe to assume he hasn't done much so far?
Yeah, Erik. Don't circumnavigate the question. No deviation from the topic.
Browns or Jets, which is it?
Eric, is Ellis showing up this camp this year and what about Coleman. These two guys really need to step it up now that we have Jenkins and LB's to come behind them
Erik, I heard on the WFAN that Carton is planning a ralley tomorrows practice to get Brett Favre. Do you think that security will actually allow him to do that? I might have to start my own ralley for Chad if they do so.
dmb and JZ, lighten up on the Bo-Man. It's all good.
Let him obfuscate--as long as he doesn't prevaricate.
Know what I'm sayin'?
are DMB and JZ accusing you of being abstruse? of surreptitious reporting?
I for one appreciate your focus on the players who are preforming well in camp. as a life long Jet fan, there' s been enough pessimism - which may be learned helplessness - but your blog has been a breath of fresh air in J-E-T-S land.
Working on the practic report now but let me answer a couple here:
Team Chad, I heard about that, too. As I pointed out yesterday, there is no groundswell of support for getting Favre from the majority of Jets fans. A couple of talk show hosts who are Jets fans don't change the facts of that. I'm not saying some fans don't want him, but it's there's not some mass movement going on here. Anyway, not sure how that will be handled. I'm going to try to find out.
Dave S., I'll answer the Ellis/Coleman question in the practice report.
dmb, generally what you say is true, though sometimes a guy who isn't mentioned doesn't necessarily mean he's having a bad camp. It might just be that he hasn't stood out one way or the other. And I think I've highlighted some guys who have made mistakes as well, though probably QB errors stand out the most, for obvious reasons.
And look at John Z pulling out 'circumnavigate, RC Meany going with 'prevaricate' and (the real) mike attempting a surreptitious use of surreptitious. Stupefying...
That's what I thought I listent to the talk radio all day and there mostly people that call in support of Favre, but I think its because the radio talk show hosts (Carton, Joe & Evan) personally want him and want people to agree with them. I was at both practices on Saturday and I had a TEAM Chad shirt and most people that came up to me liked the shirt and didn't want to see Favre or let Chad go.